{"id":844533,"date":"2025-04-29T20:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T01:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/fans-are-confused-after-ai-mistranslates-masahiro-sakurai-tweet\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T20:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T01:12:22","slug":"fans-are-confused-after-ai-mistranslates-masahiro-sakurai-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/fans-are-confused-after-ai-mistranslates-masahiro-sakurai-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans Are Confused After AI Mistranslates Masahiro Sakurai Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fans Are Confused After AI Mistranslates Masahiro Sakurai Tweet<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tby Danica Davidson<\/a>
\n <\/i> March 28, 2025 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Super Smash Bros.<\/em> and Kirby<\/em> creator Masahiro Sakurai is back in the news after his recent Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology\u2019s Art Encouragement Prize win and his comments that he doesn\u2019t think Japanese games should Americanize themselves for sales.<\/a> This time around he\u2019s in the news for retweeting a Nintendo tweet with a comment that was later mistranslated by AI.<\/p>\n

The Nintendo of Japan X (Twitter) handle shared news about Nintendo Direct, which Sakurai then retweeted with the comment \u201c\u307b\u3046\u307b\u3046<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many fans who don\u2019t speak Japanese wanted to know what he said, and they tried to translate it with AI. The problem? Grok, X\u2019s AI, kept translating it wrong. It repeatedly said it meant \u201cmethod\u201d and then fans were really confused why he would simply say \u201cmethod\u201d to Nintendo\u2019s news.<\/p>\n

It appears Grok could not understand the context or the difference between hiragana and kanji writing. The word Sakurai tweeted sounds like \u201chouhou\u201d and a Japanese word for method is also pronounced that way, but it\u2019s written differently and has a completely different meaning. It\u2019s kind of like there, their and they\u2019re in English. All Sakurai meant to do was write a laughing sound, like going, \u201cHa ha!\u201d in delight to some news.<\/p>\n

After realizing he had inadvertently befuddled many fans on X, he returned with another note: \u201cGuess I can\u2019t tweet so carelessly\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Some anime and manga companies have expressed an interest to using AI to translate Japanese into other languages more quickly, while others have been strongly against the idea. You can check out Otaku USA<\/em>\u2019s interview here<\/a> with translator Nate Derr on why he thinks AI is not the way to go with translations. In part of the interview, he says, \u201cBetween underlying emotional currents and things that are implied or omitted, as is often the case in comics or in Japanese, I think there\u2019s just too much going on for a program to competently translate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: SoraNews24<\/a><\/p>\n

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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling\u00a0Manga Art for Beginners\u00a0<\/i><\/a>with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel,\u00a0Manga Art for Everyone<\/em><\/a>, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book\u00a0Chalk Art Manga<\/a><\/em>, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at\u00a0www.danicadavidson.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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